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In 2014, the University of Michigan launched an NSF-funded program to reinvent introductory teaching and learning in the core STEM disciplines. REBUILD (Researching Evidence-Based Undergraduate Instructional and Learning Developments) aimed to promote recruitment, retention, and academic…
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Access | Faculty Professional Development | Technology | Data | Facilities | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching ExcellenceNorthwestern University Ventures in Biology Education (nuViBe) aims to reshape Northwestern undergraduate bioscience education and prepare students to pursue cutting-edge research, advanced degrees, and professional careers in biological and biomedical sciences.
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Access | Technology | Data | Facilities | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching ExcellenceThe Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory course introduces undergraduates to research by providing them an opportunity to discover novel microorganisms in the Amazonian rainforest and screen them for natural products with applications for human health and the environment. The students learn about…
Pedagogy | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | AccessYale’s Foundations Biology Course is a year-long interdepartmental biology sequence consisting of four half credit modules. The series provides an excellent interdisciplinary biology foundation for students considering careers in the biological sciences or health sciences.
Pedagogy | Access | Educational PracticesA partnership between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Maryland Baltimore County goal is to produce a dramatic increase in the number of high achieving under-represented undergraduate students in science that attain advanced STEM degrees.
Pedagogy | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | AccessThe University of Pittsburgh's Discipline-Based Science Education Research Center (dB-SERC) promotes and supports evidence-based teaching practices which bridge the gap between teaching and learning.
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Access | Faculty Professional Development | Data | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching ExcellenceOur project aims to increase undergraduate persistence in the sciences through introductory laboratory courses in which students perform real research experiments and analyze and report their results. They will take part in scientific process and join our department's scientific community early on…
Pedagogy | Educational Practices | Assessments | Access | Faculty Professional Development | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching ExcellenceUKanTeach supports effective STEM learning, effective communication about STEM, supports service learning, while exploring secondary mathematics and science teaching as an option at graduation. If you wish to be a better science communicator or teach secondary (grades 6-12) math or science, then…
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Access | Faculty Professional Development | Data | Facilities | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching ExcellenceSeeking to raise the level of STEM literacy, the UKanTeach STEM Teacher Preparation Program provided a leverage point to address STEM literacy at multiple levels of formal schooling. Since UKanTeach students are regular undergraduate STEM discipline majors it became very important that CSTEM…
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Access | Faculty Professional Development | Technology | Data | Facilities | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching ExcellenceThe University of Missouri offers a variety of undergraduate research programs to allow students to explore the unknown through hands-on work with faculty mentors and hopefully increase the number of students who pursue STEM fields.
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